Krim Belkacem

Krim Belkacem (14 September 1922-18 October 1970) was the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Algeria under Houari Boumediene and a former FLN leader. He was assassinated in Frankfurt, West Germany in 1970 due to his opposition to the Boumediene regime.

Biography
Krim Belkacem was born on 14 September 1922 in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria. He joined the French Army's First Algerian Sharpshooter Regiment during World War II, and he was known as an excellent shot. However, he joined the underground Algerian People's Party in 1946 and later joined the resistance in the late 1940s, fighting against the French colonists; Belkacem would become an FLN leader during the Algerian War. In 1958, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria, but he opposed the July 1962 formation of the FLN political bureau. On 19 June 1965, he decided to join the opposition after the political bureau under Houari Boumediene took over the government, and he was sentenced to death in absentia for plotting to murder President Boumediene. On 18 October 1970, he was assassinated in his hotel room in Frankfurt, West Germany.